How many generations back is 3% ethnicity in your DNA test results?
Can you identify who your ancestors are based on your ethnicity percentages?
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How far back is an ancestor on your family tree based on your DNA Test ethnicity percentages? Where should you begin looking for which ancestor represents your 5% or 2% ethnicity from Ancestry, MyHeritage, or genetic genealogy companies?
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0:00 Intro
0:36 Can you find out which ancestor has a small ethnicity percentage?
1:00 A Generational Chart of How Many Years in The Past Your Ancestors Lived
2:15 Comparing Results to the Generational Chart
3:13 Ethnicity percentages can't tell you which generation
5:58 Ethnicity percentages can't tell you a time frame
8:47 Ethnicity percentages are a mix of paternal and maternal lines
10:06 Ignore ethnicity percentage below 5 percent
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Three videos you should watch next before asking about ethnicity results: 😟 BTW: Your ethnicity results might not be accurate👉🏼 kzhead.info/sun/nJtpg76KjmuqbI0/bejne.html nderstanding Ethnicity Part 1: Reference Populations Databases kzhead.info/sun/hseTpKytjGluoWw/bejne.html Understanding Ethnicity Part 2: Admixture Algorithms kzhead.info/sun/ZKeim85vfXtsjIWT/bejne.html
How many relatives or generations, do you need to be the same to make up, 68.75 % ?
That's actually be a combination of relatives, many closely related to you.
There's one big error with your analysis. You have made a hidden assumption that parents have no genes in common. Particularly when you go back, parents will be people who grew up near each other. The probability of shared genes is higher than random.
@@Nickle314 It's not an "error". This video is basically an introduction to an extremely complicated subject. He does an excellent job of introducing the complications. I'm impressed.
@@PatchworkUSA It changes the odds considerably. The assumption of the genes being independent, is not correct. You see similar when people look at the odds of getting a gene from a particular generation in the past, based on the number of crossovers between each parents. Turns out, the odds of getting any direct gene from an ancestor if you go back gets quite small. That's correct. However that not the same as saying what genes you have in common. It's a subtly different question that is conflated. The discussion of what DNA can tell you is far more interesting. A brother has done the DNA test so you get matches thrown up. Distant cousins. One thing you can infer is for the most recent common ancestor, up and down, that there was probably no infidelity.
Also, you didn’t mention; that simply because a percentage is small does not mean it came from a single source, which complicates the situation even further, considerably so.
exactly my thoughts! could be your 5% of asian heritage could result from 30 asian ancestors anywhere from 100 to 1000 years back (just random numbers)
Yes! You beat me to the comment!
@rottiefan Likely all of the above.
I have seen so many people state the single full blooded ancestor and it has drove me nuts. TY for saying it.
Exactly. Although not a small percentage, I have Danish ancestry directly from Danish settlers who came here to New Zealand. But I also have records of Danish ancestry from Vikings who raided and settled in England, and then those Danish/English ancestors also came and settled in New Zealand.
My mom did a DNA test and I was incredibly impressed with how accurate our oral family tradition was. They walked from India to Yugoslavia 1000 years ago and we remembered it.
Gypsy?
Come back to your ancestor's religion Hinduism
@@legendarypussydestroyer6943 the accurate term is Romani But G*psy
A Roma, I see.
That is impressive.
My husband has a paper trail that traces his family back to the 1400's. Which I think I absolutely amazing since I pretty much end at 3rd great-grandparents. My last great grandparent recently passed away at 101. So her stories of how a Mexican family came to have a British name and how the land around them suddenly turned into America was still very fresh since she heard the story right from the source, her own grandparents and then told me. She was literally my middle-man to history.
Awesome. Be sure to link both your tree and his to your DNA results. You could possibly extend your family using DNA matching. kzhead.info/channel/PLcVx-GSCjcdmsw25mbI-wJin_9_9QQUzI.html Your husband's family tree could help other researchers build their tree. kzhead.info/sun/q9qohKaBooqsmmg/bejne.html
Most of the paper trails for my family seems to end at around the 1800s at the earliest so that's pretty impressive I gotta say
My great aunt always told me the stories of her Native American grandmother. We always thought ok so we should have some NA ancestry. My mom and I have no NA dna but every other tested relative does.
One branch of my grandparents goes back to the year 695. Yes 695 not 1695. I don't know how much faith I have in the lineage being arcuate
I bet somebody can even tell your stories about how somebody with a native name lived on their land and all of a sudden it became Mexico . Hell at one time turkey and Egypt were the homes of white people. Their ancestors don't even get to live on their land.
my family has a geneology book that goes back to 930AD on my Mom's side and one that goes back to 1100 on Dad's side. When I did the DNA test, the results were consistent with those trees. What was amazing was the number of international marriages on Dad's side. English, Scottish, Indian, Belgian (Flemish) and even some French (Normandy). But that is not very surprising once we found that his side was a military family going back to the mid 1600s. Mom's is easier, everyone lived within about 20 miles of Worms, Germany...LOL.
Mine too, but only for my oma (grandmother). I need to get a copy
I found that Germany tend to show up differently depending on which part of the country your family is from, at least with Ancestry. My family is almost all from the German/French border areas, and it generally shows up as French for me. But my fiancé’s family is from the eastern side, almost to Poland, and his shows up as German!
Worms
so weit zurück gehen keine Kirchenbücher . Nur die Welfen haben si ein weit zurück liegender Stammbaum
75 % of my ancestry is from Northern Germany (Schleswig-Holstein, baltic coast) the other 25 % from the thuringian bavarian border. I did my paper work and traced every line back to the 1600s. One 3x great grandmother emigrated from Sweden. And yet I show up as a whopping 43 % Scandinavian (Denmark & Sweden) on both Ancestry and My Heritage. Just shows you how DNA really doesn't care about political borders 😅 @@alexisb76
Both Ancestry DAN and 23 and Me showed that I'm Indian. Talking to older family members revealed a BIG translation error. We'd always known that my grandfather's grandmother was 'Indian,' but 'Indian' back in the day meant Native American. So literally everyone assumed that she was NA. People spoke of her bone-straight, jet black hair. Her daughter had dark auburn hair, but her mother's dark skin and was told to be a stunning beauty with a hell of a temper. Turns out that no. She was actually Indian. Further digging found that my great, great grandfather was an Irish man who worked for the East Indian Trading Co. out of India. He brought an Indian wife back to Ireland with him and the two of them immigrated to the USA. If it weren't for the DNA tests we would've all continued to believe that we had some NA in our genealogy, but now we know of this very brave woman who marched on to unknown lands and made a family. Good for her!
But Indians look nothing like Native American.
Dark skin, pronounced cheek bones, straight noses, black hair... might just be onto something.
@@deborahyoung1873 I don't think that she ever got around to taking a picture in the 1800's. All we heard about was 'dark skin and long, thick, jet black hair.' My father inherited her black hair and thick eyelashes. I got the lashes. One thing that puzzled me is that I have an unusual skin tone. If you just look at me, I look white, but my skin has strong olive tones. When contrasted against someone else's skin, the difference is very obvious. Before makeup companies got it together and started offering more shades for white people, I had to buy very pale foundation and mix it with a dark/olive shade meant for women of color. When I'm tan, it REALLY stands out. It's not an NA color at all. I had a BFF who was NA and his skin was much more bronze. (He used to tease me that I was part alien.) Once I found out that we were talking about INDIAN I started looking up makeup for Indian skin and lo and behold! I found my colors! Heaven in a bottle. lol!
Interesting story! Most of us long for such excitement in our pasts. Congratulations!
Love your story. Thanks for sharing
I'm adopted and took a dna test to find out my history. Turns out my genetics follow the silk road routes. I imagine trying to find documents would be impossible, so I will just be happy with knowing what I am.
I take it that’s your married name?
@@____________838 yes
That is very cool. You yourself are part of a long and fabulous history. A melting pot of many cultures and races all mingling and sharing their products, ideas, cultures and DNA.
You can triangulate DNA segments with matches and shared matches to see what comes from where to some extent.
@@stephanieyee9784 Most of us are, one Big melting pot 😊💗
Some of my extended family started researching our family tree. At one point a relative presented some interesting findings at a family reunion (and I became interested in contributing to the tree myself at that point). She mentioned that we were related to a Native American tribe not too many generations back. When I looked into sources as I was putting things into an online tree, I found that in reality we aren't related to that tribe by blood. Our ancestor was adopted/ raised by the tribe, and subsequently married outside the tribe to another of our white ancestry. 😅
Wow. That's great sleuthing. Good job.
I'm glad you posted this. I did a test from CRI Genetics a few years back even though there were some bad individual reviews. I chose the CRI test because I was less worried about them selling my info to the Chinese government, and they got good reviews from actual scientific reviews. Even if you are (and I'm not accusing) getting ad fees from one or more of the testing companies, you demonstrated (to an extent, that there is a significant difference between DNA, country-of-origin, and ethnicity). Most complaints that I hear about any company is "I know who my great-grandparents were, and they were from "X" or "Y" country, not "A" or "Z".", apparently not understanding that being born in a country doesn't determine your genetics. I also did the ancient analysis and Haplogroups matching. That tied things together better for me, and made more sense knowing the fairly diverse physical traits in my family (with a fairly well known recent family tree). My sisters and I took different tests (except my oldest sister who did CRI like I did), but they all came up very similar. My oldest sister had a little more Iberian on the ancient test (like 3% more) than I, but that made sense in that she is a little darker complected than the rest of us, as was my maternal grandmother (who was born in Germany). I also see a lot of people complain about Germanic heritage without understanding that the Germanic tribes infiltrated most of Europe and the British Isles. How many people understand the Celts were from Central Europe and later moved to the British Isles? There are relatively few 100% anything people left in the world. Peace, Love!!
stop lying, of course the celts were the originals in the UK, there was an ice age you clown
''without understanding germanic tribes'' erm sorry but everyone has heard about the angles and the norse, are you a Yank? you need to go back to history school. Do YOU realise germany and germanic are not the same? Only United Kingdom call it Germany, this depends on the bordering country and the tribe next to them, the welsh would call english saxons after wessex, while the french would call england Anglia after the angles. Do YOU realise England is more than 1000 years older than germany?
I love “complaints” about where people’s ancestors come from. As if you have a choice!
In fact, those tests find sequences of DNA that, lets say, can be found in today's Greek population. This does not mean that you have Greek ancestors. It simply means that you have an ancestor who had some genes in common with today's Greek population it does not tell you where they were from.
And cannot. Because you aren't actually "from" anywhere. Your DNA has had a long and tangled journey through time with neither beginning nor end.
Yeah, I think those small percentages are mostly noise. I'd ignore anything less than 5% or so.
Those tests are false
On the other hand, if you study haplogroups you can see that you actually come from common ancestry there. For instance those people that populated Greece came from somewhere else and had "cousins" that went to other locations.
@@salingstuff8085 Evidence?
I was so excited about getting my DNA test. Looking at all the percentages and sharing with my family, I just got mocked and was told it was all made up and how I got scammed out of $ by a company putting random ethnicities. I know DNA companies are legitimate but what can you do. Meanwhile my family paid money at a last name kiosk (that generates the same last name info for everyone) at the mall and bought a big poster of our last name that they proudly display on the wall. And I'm the fool?
It is really hard for some people to cope with the many strands of people we come from. Especially when migration and dislocation provides some people with opportunities to change their status in society. This is very human behaviour and our settler societies (I'm from Australia) very much invest energy in promoting "opportunity to be whoever you want to be". This also means some of us will want to 'gild the lily' and make up over a couple of generations we have had higher status forbears and buy things like heraldry plaques!! I find the real stories far more interesting and the hardship and actions of my forbears (good and bad) a terrific legacy of human endurance. Keep up your interest and you may be surprised in time how some of your relatives start asking you about it!! Best of luck Julia
NEVER DO A DNA TEST.... The companies performing the tests will sell your information. And it is possible to use genetic information to tailor make a bio weapon specific down to even an individual level...
Well, your family isn't completely wrong. The DNA companies can't tell you where you are from. They can tell you that your DNA kinda matches people from this area or that area, and it changes over time as they get more samples. And most native American DNA is actually Mexican and central and south American related (which is technically native) because they don't have enough DNA from what people think of as the American Indian to compare people's DNA to.
@@calliew311 my DNA ancestry test was exactly what my mother,grandmother said we were from.Of course,If you go back 20p's of years you end up with DNA in many places..Commom sense
You are being Scammed by the DNA testing people, but not how you or your family thinks for. There's a much bigger reason there are DNA kits out their for us to buy now, think about it. ALL Your Information goes on a main worldwide database for the people running your country to look at as they need. If you have a particular blood disorder or a particular disease that runs in your family they'll know about it because you've let the entire world know your genealogy . Eg. Future employer's will look into this database to see if you or your family member's have sicknesses that could stop you from working, even if just temporary. Basically you gave your & your families "blue print" of your families gene's away & it WILL be used against you & your future family member's!! Facts!
This is really helpful to me, because one of the results I got on my 23 and Me was unexpected. Well, lot of it is unexpected because my grandfather was adopted, but out of the things we thought we knew, something didn't show up. I have a great-grandmother who spoke the language of the Blackfeet Nation, she left the reservation in the very early 1900s when she was married off to a trapper to get her out of there before everybody starved, and she then raised my mother and passed on quite a few traditions, so we have a very strong connection to that heritage... but it didn't come it up at all in my test. However, she was also sent off the reservation because she was paler than everybody else and had lighter hair, and as long as she stayed out of the sun, she didn't look dark... Which she tried to do because she didn't want to be treated badly by her neighbors in white communities (later on in her twilight years she moved near to a reservation in Arizona just to hang out all the time). Which leads me to believe that maybe she was actually a strong percentage of white of some kind, with only a little Native ancestry herself (she was raised by her grand parents and had no contact with her own parents, and she was considered a twilight child), so maybe I just didn't get any of that passed down, but I'm not sure if that's actually how that works. I'm going to pay for my mother to get a test, and my brother as well, just to see what else I can figure out on both sides.
As a blood member of the Blackfoot tribes.... I am a descendant of a German woman who was rescued by a Blackfoot camp when she was a baby. The general consensus is that her family were most likely attacked and killed or ran off. In all the craziness the baby was left behind. The natives took her in and raised her as their own. I am the seventh generation from that baby. In your case I can only imagine that it was along same lines. Abandoned and adopted children. Perhaps your ancestor was older and remembered their actual parents so didn't quite fit in due to emotional ties. Who knows? That was a very hard time to exist for everyone.
@@kishapotts6869 that makes sense! I wondered if there was something like that, because she was supposed to have had a twin sister who looked much more Native than she did, and I wonder if they were actually twins or just two babies who were raised together and thought they were twins because that's what they were told, possibly being raised by grandparents. But then we all know that some twins can look very different from each other because of strange genetic quirks, so who knows! I just wish I had more contact with that side of my ancestry and could engage more with it, but since I was raised so far away from it, it's really a case of me wondering if I am just intruding at this point to try to learn more. I've always felt very connected to it because of my grandmother's traditions and some of the language she passed down (I think of her as my grandmother not my great-grandmother because she raised my mother), but I only got to know her for a very short time in my life, and I've never been to Browning.
I did a dna test just to find out the ethnicity of my great grandmother who was rumoured to be mixed ethnicity but my grandmother refused to give anyone details. It turns out I have 4% west African in my dna, majority it Scandinavian and Irish. I was born in England like my parents but only have 1% English dna. My sister has slightly different percentages than me but still the 4% west African. I find this amazing and it answered so many questions but left so many unanswered too.
Your case is a good example of what the ethnicity tests can be used for.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics dna tests are mostly fake and you shouldn't be tricked. FOr example a lot of white Brits are told they have indian DNA this is wrong. They are 100%, how these companies work is they have an indian database which they use to compare, and a lot of the indians have white dna from 300 years ago. So the link is indians with Anglo-Indian heritage not whites with indian. Your g g uncle could have married an doesn't give you indian dna does it. These companies are very inaccurate, they cherry pick very small parts of your dna and compare only with what they have on their results from previous. Great historians such as ''Survive the Jive'' rely on modern scientific analysis
Sounds like she was possibly passing as white. I have uncovered a lot of evidence that my own great-great-grandmother likely was passing. but genetics is so random - and after so long I’m - I have zero African DNA myself. Several cousins on that side have 1 to 2%, though.
I found out my 6 times Great Grandmother was an African slave bought to England, married once slavery ended and had 3 children, she eventually returned too Senegal the Seher people , they named her Sarah. I thought I was just English, but it came back , Irish , Scottish, Scandi, French/German couldn’t find a place specific but mostly English from London .
If you have African DNA it goes back to a bad moment in history
I got an Ancestry DNA kit for my birthday early this year. I didn’t expect any surprises cause I researched already where my ancestors came from. The results came back and I am 57% Scottish, 28% English, 11% Irish, 2% Welsh and 2% Norwegian. The big surprises were the Irish and Norwegian. My mums side are from the Orkney Islands in Scotland which a millennia ago was occupied and colonised by the Vikings so there’s the obvious reason there. I went through the surnames on my tree and two or three of them were Irish. My 3x great grandmother was born in Sydney, Australia. Most immigrants there were Irish so that’s a big possibility as well. Typically had English as well cause the English colonised everything. My great grandma whom I met was born in Yorkshire, England and she came here to New Zealand on a steam ship when she was only a few years old. There’s my family story, hope you enjoyed!
I'm 100% native American we never were colonized by English people we apache aztec still unconquered Mexico is indigenous
My results didn't surprise me much being that both sides of my family are from the same town on the north coast of Sicily and have been there most likely for centuries. 81% southern Italian/Sicilian, 14 % northern Italian, most likely from my Genoese great grandmother and then 3% Cypriot ( not sure if it's Greek or Turkish) and 2% Maltese.
if you do a y chromosomal test maybe your ancestors come from India Pakistan or even Iran
Try tracing your roots when you are descended from slaves & there are no records. My dna test results are all I have.
Scotland 55% -Scottish Central Lowlands -North East Scotland & the Northern Isles England & Northwestern Europe 34% Ireland 7% Norway 2% Wales 2% I’m from Scotland (Lothian)
On one side of my family, one set of my great grandparents were born about 120 years before I was born. They were in their 40s when my grandmother was born, and my grandmother was in her 40s when my mother was born. My mother was 36 when I was born. My mother's sister was 45 when she had my youngest first cousin. The generations are long in my family.
In my family, my mom is 20 years older than me, her mother was 20 years older than her and great grandmother had her first child at 20. My grandmother was not the first child but the 2nd. My great mother gave birth to her first child at 20 but great grandmother was still only 22 when my grandmother was born. Great Grandmother was born late in the year of 1900. Also, my great great grandmother was 20 when my great grandmother was born.
@@causticchameleon7861 hmmmm seems like DNA doing what it’s programmed to do...replicate and replace..🤨😁
I was born same year as you and my great-grandfather was born 1885. He was in his fifties when my grandmother was born in the thirties.
@@oculusnomadslosttribe5672 yep. But I broke the “have a baby at 20” streak. I was 24 when my first was born. 😆
@@fimbulsummer wow! My great grandad on my moms side was born in 1895. He passed away when I was 12 in 1975.
Andy! You are so easy to listen to, love learning from you.
Glad you enjoy it!
SO GLAD to hear someone talk about these important details of info....the generations of my family are usually way less than others. My grandmother had my mother very very late, my mother had me somewhat late. so there is only three generations covering from just before 1900. I get some really weird looks from people as to what our respective grandparents talked about....haha. PS. Also there was some rather bizarre scenes when I would give a curt word to much older people about their "inappropriate behaviour".🤣😂
Families are so interesting, are they not? This is why there are no easy answers in genealogical research that apply to everyone.
My sister and I had a good laugh when we got out results. Since our mom was adopted, we never really knew much about her ancestry beyond her birth father's last name being most likely of either Scottish or Irish origin. In her adoptive family, her dad's ancestry was 100% Norwegian and her mom's 100% from the British Isles. Our father came from Sweden. Oddly enough, our DNA results came back with exactly the same percentages they would have had if her adoptive family had been her biological family: 50% Swedish, 25% Norwegian, 25% British Isles. In both cases, the Norwegians were fairly recent immigrants to the U.S., while the British ancestors dated back to Colonial times. How many adoptees, or children of adoptees, find out that they're exactly who they think they are? We also ran our DNA through a few different ancient heritage sites and discovered, if their information is correct, that basically every one of our ancestors, even the British ones, were Vikings. And pre-Vikings. And before that, Nordic Battle Axe people, as if our early ancestors marched determinedly northward and entered Scandinavia at the earliest possible moment, settled in the southwest of Sweden and Norway, and for the most part remained there until the early 20th century.
I'm glad you're happy with the percentages. I invite you to begin the real work of building your family tree to see how accurate the ethnicity percentages are. Start here... kzhead.info/channel/PLcVx-GSCjcdk1GsAs9NfLWKvACcjE3Afg.html
Wow, Crazy. Way too complicated!
Which DNA service did you use, if it’s okay to ask? Sounds like they take the DNA back to ancient people, which I would be very interested in understanding.
No surprise that many Brits would have Viking ancestry.
That is fabulous!
Mother’s DNA results: 0% Swedish. Father’s DNA results: 0% Swedish. My DNA results: 6% Swedish. Hmm.
You need to speak with your mother.
@@Catubrannos lol
@@Catubrannos ;-) Nah, Ancestry successfully identified my mother and father as my parents even though we live in different countries; sent them in at different times and did nothing to build a family tree. Ancestry has some explaining to do.
What about possibility of adoption?
@@theelizabethan1 Ancestry identifies your biological parents. If I were adopted, Ancestry wouldn't identify my father and mother as my biological father and mother but they did. This is not a 'surprise! your father or mother isn't who you thought' situation. That is also how I know that my biological father and my biological mother have 0% Swedish DNA.
It is so helpful to be able to refer back to your helpful videos.
Awesome. I'm glad you're going back into the archive.
Thank you!This is very clear. I am finding that apart from recent generations, for family trees as a person with Irish famine heritage, we eventually discover we are human. The human attributes cross and embrace all heritage....at last the messages of tolerance and compassion can have a basis in fact as to how to view ourselves and our fellow human beings. Congratulations on this channel, all the way from Australia. A note- my grandfather on my father's side was in his 50s when he had a 2nd family comprising my father and uncles whereas my grandmother was 25, an average in your generations calculation. Both settler families came from Ireland in very different conditions. Cheers Julia
Thanks for the support and sharing your thoughts Julia. Be sure to check out videos on this channel from myself and my wife. We'd appreciate it.
Those ethnicity % can change quite a bit, because they are based on the company's database. I had first 8% East European, after the update it changed to West European. I also have 20% Scandinavian, but that is not a grandparent, that is several generations ago.
Doing a family tree (admittedly a lot of work) would help verify your results. Doing both is very useful. I had a big problem verifying an ancestor because I could find no marriage license or birth certificate. I found the mother I thought was involved but she died still with her surname. It was not until I did my DNA a few years ago that eventually this family line started showing up with multiple people in that family that were related, but distantly. It was the late 1700's and my known ancestor was most likely either illegitimate or his parents' marriage was annulled or divorced. My male ancestor was poor. The female's family was wealthy. I think that explains everything and I can just imagine the drama.
Same with me, I got 21% Irish and I’m from Brazil with no history of any Irish or British in my family. It’s probably a mix of many generations ago in most of my Iberian lineages.
Think about this: ifone of your ancestors with 5% Scandinavian mates with somebody who is 7% Scandinavian, the mix can be very diverse, from increase to decrease. The amount of Scandinavian a lot of Europeans have comes from constant re-combining with people who also had this DNA. This is also why Western European have 2 to 4% Neanderthal.
@hi exactly, and if dutch came up as a result who would know if that is saxon shore frisian in uk 2nd century, or 5th century frisian, or 1066 or 1700 glorious revolution, or 1800s or escaping the war or even british via boers in SA
Exactly. I am about 12% of English descent, which would account for a great grandparent. But it's not. It's over a dozen 10th great grandparents.
Of course, both parents have a mixture of ancestry. Also, many people in the 19th century married a cousin.
Lol inbreds by the dozens.
@@katerinakemp5701 Actually millions. In America you have a 1 in 10 chance of meeting someone that is a distant cousin.
Wow!
@@unknowntexan4570 This is bad science. Everyone is technically a distant cousin so that doesn't really count
@@andrebosma2937 They usually mean within 5 or so generations. Fifth cousins. At 40 generations every person on earth is related, so that isn't what is meant here.
Interesting information. The chart is helpful. I've been wanting to know about which ancestors give a person their 5%-2% ancestry.
Thank you for making this video. I recently took a DNA ethnicity test and the results were definitely intriguing. I'm Hispanic (my family hails from South America, on both sides). My test showed a large percentage of Native bloodlines. I also have Spanish (from Spain) and Basque results which was neat to see and that confirmed my lifelong hunch that I am a mestizo. The remaining results were really eye-opening. I'm also part Irish, Egyptian, and Portuguese. The Native results were in the double digits while the remaining ethnic results were in the single digits.
The double digits are likely more valid than the single digits. Now that you have the ethnicity results, it's time to build our your family tree.
I’m Moroccan and got 0,4% Spaniard, when my great grandma is literally Spaniard... it was shocking for me.. everything else that I got makes sense: 80% North African 17% subsaharian (Nigerian, Gambian, Sudanese) and 1% Arabian.
But _a lot_ of Spaniards have a significant percentage of North African blood.
You only INHERITED .4% spanish dna from your great grandma.
Being a Spaniard by birth does not always reflect our ethnicity
Once you start digging in your families records you'll find A LOT of stuff that will probably shock you.
i suppose it’s normal. i have a 2nd great grandfather from Germany and I didn’t have ANY German on my results, even with my grandma having a large amount on hers.
My DNA with ancestry has changed so much since I took the test 5 years ago. Same with all the family members tests I manage. The DNA estimates are always changing.
An inexact science 🧬
Hence why they are called ethnicity estimates.
It's because the more people take the tests the more samples and so the greater and greater the accuracy becomes. :-) When I first took my test with Ancestry DNA I got some Eastern European DNA. That has fallen off and has gone over to Northern and Northwestern Europe entirely.
Yes I’m still trying to figure mine out. Ancestry won’t explain it well - this man at least has science and numbers. ✅
Also populations blend into neighboring populations so there are no distinct lines like lines on a map.
So so happy I ran into you on YT!
I'm happy you found my channel as well. Be sure to watch my DNA videos and my wife's genealogy research related videos. We're here to help you enjoy the journey.
When I had gotten my 23&Me results several years ago, it felt very easy to identify which parts of my heritage came from each parent. My mother said she had British and German ancestry, while my father was from Greece. My results divided along a 50/50 split between those claims almost exactly. But as they have compiled more data from other uses and updated my results in comparison, that split has become muddled with about 2% shifting to northwestern European ancestry, an introduction of supposed Scandinavian heritage. I COULD believe my Greek father was the source of this Scandinavian heritage as his family heritage would have gone through the Ottoman Empire to the Byzantine Empire, which at one point employed Scandinavians as a military guard, but I could hardly believe that such ancestry would have survived over 700 years unless the dark haired maidens of Anatolia really liked themselves blonde haired Vikings.
Only building your family tree using DNA matches can help you resolve the answers to the validity of your DNA ethnicity results. My wife has given up on these results because no DNA company agrees with what her ethnicity percentages are. However, the DNA matching has been spot on.
It could come from your mother. Ask your mother's relatives if they know anyone Schleswig.
Thank you for this. Myheritage results had me with 1.8% South Asian and 1.9% West Asian, so this was very helpful. (My mother said we had some East Indian in our family but wasn't sure where that started)
You are welcome. I hope you enjoy some of the other videos on our channel.
And considering how family trees can converge, it's possible that someone might have fewer ancestors from a particular generation than they assumed. If you go back far enough, then the calculated number of ancestors for a given generation could be larger than the total number of humans who have ever been alive.
Thank you for freely sharing this knowledge.
I have been binging your contentm and appreciate the information. My father has been doing some genealogical research and developed some strange ideas (mostly, because he has only been researching the line of his father and the family name, and that lled him to reject some DNA results my brother has received.
LOL
I hope you can watch my wife's videos about evaluating genealogical evidence to help with your father. kzhead.info/channel/PLcVx-GSCjcdlShznES5zbhuFlKpqMA2R_.html Basically, if genealogical records can be misleading, then so can DNA. But, DNA can confirm/deny many close lines if used correctly. Good luck.
I haven't read _all_ the comments, but I don't notice that anyone has mentioned that "racial outliers" going back 100+ years might not be actually documented as a parent (father), but might be the result of an affair or "involuntary impregnation", and ethnicity may have been unknown even by the mother.
This can also show up as odd close relatives where incest has occured and been hidden.
People lie. I found out one of my great grandfather's daughter was actually his by the next door neighbor instead of his wife who raised her by discovering several letters and lies about marriage record dates vs census records. One of my own grandfathers lied so many times over the years about his age he had a hard time getting social security when the time came. He had of habit of marrying much younger women and I guess he felt better about it if he pretended the age gap wasn't as big. It's shocking going thru census records as I have found many relatives who perpetually change the states their parents were born in over the years.
@@rockyroad7345 "Lie" might be a little harsh - bear in mind that as recently as the early 20th century many people were illiterate, and so were unable to complete the census forms themselves, so relied on a friend, neighbor, or someone employed by the census office, who just wrote down what they were told. .... And the subject of the census form was reliant on memory. So there are plenty of opportunities for inaccurate data to enter the census databases without having to call people "liars". I have seen this in my own family tree, where it appears that someone apparently changed his middle name, but even a couple of generations later, the family was illiterate, so who knows what he told the census official, and why, but it looks like some sort of mistake and not a lie or attempt to deceive.
Got my results back and most was not a surprise. Mostly Scottish, Irish, & Italian. I was surprised at 9% Greek/Albanian. 🏴🇮🇪🇮🇹🇬🇷🇦🇱
Magma Graecia is largely genetically Greek and some Illyrian that might be.
Maybe Greek/Albanian from Italy.
I was completely surprised by being 14% Italian. No one on either side of my family is aware of Italian heritage.
Useful video, thank you! I just recently got my DNA test results and I got 11% North Western Europe and a LOT of matches with Germans. We have no information of any relatives from this region however after some research I found out that there were a lot of Black Sea German settlements in North East Bulgaria (where all my family is from). One of these settlements was only 10km away from my grandma's village and we believe there was a great great grandparent who was almost 100% German
Great detective work!
Yeah my mom just did her DNA because she's adopted and she came back like 5% Russian, 3% Spanish, 3% Italian, 10% Jewish, and like 15% Eastern European among a bunch of different ethnicities. Its really cool to see that especially because she was adopted. My ancestors walked across the land Bridge, i know that, and we have ties to the Tiffany family in New York. Now I understand it a little more about how it works
Also you might get ethnicity admixture from more than one ancestor.
200 years ago most people did not move far from home so marrying a distant cousin was a regular thing. My wife has traced our family trees and found such cross links.
True
@@martinconnelly1473 unless you have ancestors who were either part of human trafficking or indigent servant
That's the whole point of genetic inheritance. For a cool video about genetic segments disappearing, check out this one kzhead.info/sun/pbF7n9N8pnRoiqM/bejne.html
Thanks for the understandable explanation. How would married cousins impact the DNA values?
I shared both times I watched thank you 🙏
This table is very helpful, thank you. I have come to understand that because someone is a current or distant ancestor it doesn't necessarily equate to me sharing direct DNA with them. I am feeling to say there's a difference between genetic similarity and a genetic ancestor.
Yes, We don't share DNA with all of our ancestors. That is always something that is difficult to wrap your head around.
I did ancestry in the beginning in 2020 sent it in January of 2020 got it early February 2020 my results are 45% Germanic 33% scotland 8% Sweden 5% Ireland 5% Norway I did upload my raw DNA to my true ancestry found out I have ancestors that were, ancient Franks, Saxons and Visigoths and celts, just fascinating to me I don't know much about either side of my mother and father, I grew up in foster care, I wanted to know where my roots came from and I am happy with my results!
That’s cool. My dad’s ancestors are pretty much German/Polish/Lithuanian/Austrian Jews and my mom’s family is pretty much Germanic but I do suspect there is a very tiny amount of Celtic because several of her paternal ancestors came from Switzerland. Funnily enough I have ancestors on both sides of my family who came from the same village, Hettenhausen. Also I’m somehow related to Bud Abbot via my mom’s dad. I need to go onto Ancestry to figure out exactly how because I thought he was entirely English.
I'm glad you took the test. I would recommend you begin trying to build our your family tree. Treat this as if you were an adoptee (the process is the same) and see if the percentages align. kzhead.info/channel/PLcVx-GSCjcdk1GsAs9NfLWKvACcjE3Afg.html
So you are 100% northern European then.
What😂 Sweden and Norway are already Germanic
So over 100%?!? The categories need to be split.
Another problem I think that needs to be taken into account is that sometimes the ethnicity results are based on in which countries you have DNA matches. For example: I have a pretty good developed family tree, with only one family branch that I haven't been able to trace back further than 1883 (the birth year of one of my 2nd great-grandfathers). Beyond that, I can go back anywhere between the late 1700's and early 1100's. According to MyHeritage, I have 33,3% Scandinavian DNA. However, I don't have any Scandinavian ancestors. What I do have are DNA matches in Scandinavian countries. And when I look at the matches whom have a well developed family tree, I find that we often share one or more common ancestor(s) from the country were I'm from; The Netherlands. Or, that the persons I match with may live in Scandinavia but are actually Dutch. So it seems that MyHeritage calculated the fact that I must have Scandinavian ancestry based on the DNA matches I have from there, when in fact, most of those matches exists because they have Dutch ancestry.
You need to read the white papers on how they develop their sample. I don't how MyHeritage does it, but Ancestry uses people with known deep ancestry in a particular area.
Interesting. I took an Ancestry DNA test. My maternal Grandma is of Dutch and Jewish stock. It seems to shows up as 21% Germanic (though I have a tiny bit of actual German on my Dad's side) and 11% European Jewish. I don't have any Scandinavian in my estimate at all. The Dutch are such a mixed bag that it's hard for even experts to tell what they are it seems... LOL.
Vikings used to raid the Netherlands area all the time so that is one possibility. The amount of trading done over the North Sea the last 1,500 years had to leave DNA markers in both peoples and the Netherlands is less than 1,000 miles away from Denmark, Norway and Sweden so it could be natural admixture of peoples.
No company (that I know of) uses your DNA matches to create your ethnicity estimate. Ethnicity estimates are calculated by comparing your DNA to a reference population that has known ancestry. Some of the reference populations (English, Scottish, Irish, Scandinavian, North West Europe) can have 10,000 or more individuals in them while others (Pacific Islanders, Native Americans) may only have a few dozen.
That's exactly right. It was more likely for my greek ancestors to leave for italy than the other way around hence my 4% italian and distant relatives there. But it is also likely an italian ship hand stayed in greece
Thanks for your help, this is the first time I have seen a chart table
You are most welcome. I like to see information in lots of different ways to understand it better.
Thanks for that information. It gives me such an improved understanding of our DNA and heritage.... Gig'em Aggies!!
Gig'em Right back at you. (Pass it Back and let other Ags know about this channel.)
This is pretty accurate. I am 3% Ashkanazi Jewish. My 3rd great grandmother was Jewish as of course were her parents etc. I am an Aussie. I have traced my Jewish ancestry back to 1600's.
hi! if you don’t mind me asking, do you have any advice for tracing ashkenazi ancestry? what you did is so impressive, almost all of my ancestry is ashkenazi but i’ve been a bit stuck lately trying to find people
Every test of a european shows that we all have some jrwish ancestry which i not belive.these tests are not acurate at all
@@jordyn2735 You mean genealogically? Names? Records? Well, the Mormons have collected elaborate records around the world. You can always try out with their FamilySearch. If you know where they came from (with basic information like names, dates of birth etc.) you may be able to find more in local records of that region.
@@r.v.b.4153 yeah, unfortunately i’ve hit a bit of a block for finding a lot of my ancestors pre-immigration. i’ve only had luck with a few lines, but i’ve had trouble finding ship manifests which really help the most. it’s probably a name thing which makes it hard to fond
Awesome. Glad you could figure it out.
When I got my DNA results I wasn't really surprised. My Father's side is more vague as I assume WW2 destroyed many documents. I can only go back to late 1800s. However, my mother's side is well documented back to the 1400s and 1 direct line of French Kings/Queens to 560AD. The best part of the DNA testing for me was finding matches and piecing together our family tree connection. Then we were able to help fill in the gaps we were missing.
Hello how are you doing 😊😊😊
Right, everyone who has direct descendants from Europe are related to royalty. LMAO. Guess there were no Serfs back then. SMH White Americans.
This has helped a lot. My sisters and I came up with 6% Nigerian, as we don't share the same mother that narrows it down to our fathers side of the family (which we knew). What we didn't know was how far back to look. We come from the far west of the UK, which until roughly 150 years ago was very insular (we're 90% western British, Welsh, Cornish). Sadly, colour isn't recorded in parish records or other data and we could be looking at the name of our black relative as we have traced back to the 1620's. But this has probably narrowed the field to the last 150 years, and that is within the timescale of photography.
I'm happy to help and I love seeing your analytical skills in action. Good luck. Set aside the ethnicity and see where DNA matching takes you.
As it is considered the seat civilization a precent of African can mean any thing as whites came from Africa also.
@@franceslock2058 yes but you’ll have to go back several thousand years for whites to see their African ancestors
Thanks for this site. Most helpful
Glad it was helpful!
I did the 23&Me test and the Ancestry DNA test and both of them came back with the same results, which shocked me a lot. They say that I have ancestry from four continents and multiple countries and ethnic groups in three of them. I joked with a friend that my DNA looks like a bag of Skittles. LOL. I really want to know who's who and some of them I do know based on family records and being able to build a family tree on Ancestry that goes back to my great-great-great grandparents on my mother's side. This video made me realize that I may never have a fully comprehensive family tree, and that makes me kind of sad because I really need answers for some of these results. LOL. But it was very informative.
Bag of skittles lol. I have like 13 ethnicities but 0 records on my family past my parents and even with both them and my grandparents still living I'm at a dead end still after 9 years
That's common for African Americans (or Africans from the diaspora ) to have multiple things in them. Like girl mentioned above I have about 13 things in me. Also, My ancestry test and other test didn't match. I've taken 3 or 4 test , all are kind of similar but not exact but the ancestry test was way off from them all. But like you my daughter's test matched closely from all of her test.
Skittles! Taste the Rainbow. Part of that is similar to my family, 1920s-1965, everyone wanted to appear "American". Ancestry was forgotten or hidden. Makes me feel like the Roman Catholics are cheaters, for having so many good records. Finally found Grandma amongst the French-Canadians, and voila, got back to 1610 easy peasy, TY RC Church!
I’m trying to find my real grandfather 😞 My grandmother was married to a Lithuanian but surprisingly had my mom with an Italian guy and my mother just passed so she never got to meet her real family
You can hire a Professional from Ancestry to help you find out who he is. It is very expensive, though. If you could get family members to pitch in or start a GoFundMe. My Aunt had our family done. We had a lot of Hispanic DNA matches we didn't know where it came from. It turns out my great grandfather on my mother's side was Hispanic. Not the person on my grandmother's birth certificate. Finding documents are great but life is not always how it seems
Ditto. My Gramma was adopted, born from an affair. We have no idea who her family was/is.
@@douglasvilledarling2935 define expensive
This is a very informative video, thank you for posting. A new paternity event can also confuse a family historian. From my experience, 80% of people have an NPE line but don't know it. It may lead to half shared relationship centimorgans with DNA cousins and causes even more confusion to the person trying to establish how they are related to their DNA cousins.
In certain parts of America, people can establish how they're related to their DNA cousins by looking at their marriage certificate 😏
This is really helpful. Thank you.
You're very welcome!
If you are lucky enough to find a famous or prominent person in your background that is very helpful in tracing your tree because those people are more likely to have trees going back quite a few generations. My son actually had less than 1% Ashkenazi Jewish in his ancestry, which was a surprise, but when going through his family tree, I found that two of his GGGgrandparents on his father's side from Poland had Jewish surnames. It could be that they were not 100% Jewish because of the less than 1% result. That's as far back as I can go with the tree at present, to around the 1820's.
The smaller percentages when you have documentation of a heritage could actually be more related to how DNA is passed down. Watch this video to learn more. kzhead.info/sun/lsZ6g6-hgadmqJ8/bejne.html
Very true. My great grandmother came from well-documented family that took me all the way back to Charlemagne. He was quite a prolific guy.
I was so.intrigued. I faced your exact scenario. 3% Ashkenazi. And greatly determined to find that grandparent. With all my other lines defined in some cases all the,way to early 1600 I only had to find 12 people from the early to mid 1800. It has been a journey. I have six of the 12. :)
Good for you, hope you are able to find the others in time.
my wife is Mexican and she also got 3% Ashkenazi. I wonder how far back that was
@@shaunsteele8244 likely a 3rd Great Grandparent. Depending on your wife's age I would say that likely is late 1700-early to mid 1800. The later the date the more chance of finding the records. The other problem is the surname/family names, Ashkenaziim were very resistant to taking surnames and it wasn't until the later 18th C to early 19th C that this happened. But finding Jewish DNA in Mexico is a historic reality with a lot of research being done on when and how the migration across to South and central and then N America happened. I wish you luck in your search!
@@bmr4566 lol take your meds
Fascinating, I’m hooked!!! 👌👏👏
Awesome! Thank you!
Two ancestry DNA tests with basically same results. Mostly British & Germanic, and 10-16% Scandinavian, depending on the company. I've gotten back to 7th grandparents, everyone's from England or Netherlands, one from Wales. I figured I'd find a Swede or Dane at some point, but not as of yet. It must come from farther back, I don't know. Family research is like reading a mystery novel that doesn't have an end.
I’ve got paper trails leading back 15 plus generations in some cases, but then I’m lucky to have access to some of the largest databases in the world and several generations of people that really cared and kept records.
Considering the fact that about 6% of children are fathered by someone different to the supposed father: I wouldn't be so confident.
@@fintonmainz7845 are you calling my grandmothers whores? Who does that?
That's awesome. DNA would do two things in this situation. 1. Validate the paper trail. The paper trail isn't always the genetic trial. But it could be. 2. Connect that established tree with DNA so that those who don't know their heritage might connect in. kzhead.info/sun/q9qohKaBooqsmmg/bejne.html
And not to mention adoptees. People in past centuries often adopted relatives' children, in Europe, Africa and Asia. And in the times when being an unmarried mother was a sin, children could be brought up as children to people who were actually an aunt or a grandmother.
Yes, and not just relatives. Years ago it was common for a family to "take in" an orphaned neighbor child. My grandfather (born in Italy)was Roman Catholic .orphaned and taken in by a Jewish family, who taught him the trade of tailoring and brought him to the United States (for which I thank them every day) I never met him because he died at 27 from pneumonia (which was a killer in the pre penicillin days). He died in 1907.
After my grandfather died, my aunts discovered letters in a trunk written my a stranger to who the family thought was my great-grandfather’s sister. They were written from a soldier in 1865 to his “dear wife” congratulating her on the birth of their son. He suggested the name “Martin Allen” and signed the letter George Rathbun. It’s taken endless hours of research over 60 years but we’ve found no records of Elmira marrying George Rathbun but my great grand-father Martin was raised by Elmira’s parents as her brother. I contributed to Ancestry DNA and have confirmed I share DNA with the Rathbun family. Sadly my bio Great-Great-Grandfather George’s children (through marriage) ever had children survive so on paper his lineage dead ends but my Great Grandfather Martin has thousands of descendants that could have been Rathbuns if George had returned to Elmira after the war!
Auntie Lucille, you are a good story teller. this was captivating for real. for real !
This adds another dimension to names (lets say you have an Italian last name, but your ethnicity results come back as 100% Scandinavian)
So my grandmother on my mum's side was a Stolen Child here in Australia. There were many horrendous reasons for this practice but one of the main goals was "breeding out the colour". My grandmother is believed to have had a half aboriginal mother and a full aboriginal father but family knowledge is a bit shaky on that. My mum's dad on the other hand was English and Scottish for most of what he knew. My family name is German (believed to come from Prussia going back further) and that's my my Paternal line goes through, my great great grandfather through that line is from Brandenburg. We believe he came over to Australia as a baby or a very young child. My grandma on my dad's side is primarily Scottish at least by name and paternal line. It's all super unclear because at a lot of the forks going backwards you see one or two steps up people marring others from other parts of Europe, most of these being once they moved to Australia with all their descendants being born in Australia. Of course where you are born also doesn't determine your ethnicity even if it does hint at it for a lot of older countries. Anyway all that family history listing was to via Ancestry's DNA tests I show up as being around 3% Australian Aboriginal (at the moment as they change their estimates a lot) and I'm not the number of generations away that these tables would suggest. Granted it is only in the last couple years they have identified Australian Aboriginal separately and they have believed with some accuracy. On the other hand my paternal line where my surname comes from back to Germany doesn't really show up at all on current estimates (it had on some previous) with no estimated percentage of German. I mostly get Scottish, English, Irish and just behind Ireland is Norway which I have no family story to account for. Others like Sweden and Eastern Europe have small numbers but at least as much as my aboriginal ancestry shows us. The estimations aren't perfect and how these percentages match ancestors is far from perfect too but it sure is interesting. The real fun is when you look at the new inheritance breakdown option see that Norway comes from both sides even. Of course these estimates are also based on current people's DNA and not on the people who historically lived in these countries and with all the intermingling in Europe especially it is a bit impossible to untangle it all even back to say the mid 1800s. Besides going far back enough and looking at how different groups of people interacted, intermingled, and came into existence or "stopped" existing you see how this is all an artificial construct that's nowhere near clear cut. W
You're right, DNA testing isn't clear cut. Ethnicity results can only offer clues. After that, we have to build our family tree through DNA matching kzhead.info/channel/PLcVx-GSCjcdmsw25mbI-wJin_9_9QQUzI.html
I figured mine is from Brandenburg also, as Prussia was what was written down as country of origin at Ellis Island, but Prussia at that time only consisted of Bradenburg. Also .. got Irish n Scottish, but the surprise was all the Northern countries.. Norway, etc. and hardly any German or French ( n Swiss), which is what we identified with. Hmm.. I guess the Irish n Scottish came from all those northern countries, but y only a coupla percents from the mid European countries.. I can't figure out.
Thanks so much for sharing, and breaking it down.! Families can be so large. :D
Large families can be a problem. Small families are a tough challenge as well.
My Ancestry DNA came back and it had a break down of 77 % African, 18 % European, 5 % Native.
Thats pretty typical range for ADOS
@@nmagain24 yea it is
Well, according to Ancestry's estimate, I'm 83-85% African, 13%-15% European and 1% Southeast Asian, and 1% Indigenous Yucatan Peninsula (Mayan aka Mexican) I wanna try 23&Me and see what I get.
Haven't had the test. That seems to be the percentage range for Black Americans. I assume mine is very similar.
@@terrinyc29 African Americans usually range between 75-90% African decent. European admixture is a given for AAs. I've read a study that said AAs that have been on the west for a few generations will have a slightly higher European admixture than those in other parts of the US (75-80% African). I fit that range since I'm in California and my family has been on the west for some generations.. Native ancestry for others can be higher, lower or none at all.
And not to discount the fact that if you're say 2% Ashkenazi Jewish, it doesn't necessarily follow that you're looking for _one_ person. you might have inherited 1% of that from your mother and 1% from your father (assuming you don't have the benefit of your parents' DNA to check)
True, I just didn't want to get into even more complications since the ranges are pretty broad to begin with.
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Thanks for the support. Be sure to watch other videos from this channel, especially my wife's content about genealogical research tips. (Being a great husband here. Help a guy out?)
This fascinated me and has since childhood. What advancements science has made. I started my Family Tree in the early 1970’s. My mom’s ancestry was exclusively E. European and Mediterranean. My dad’s is English Scottish Irish etc. BUT with a small % of No. African!! Drives me crazy Who & When this exotic thread was introduced!! I think I found the source but it’s still a theory. We’re all such Mutts aren’t we??? Maybe someday we’ll be able to identify ALL our ancestors who have created us and find out how many contemporaries we’re related to!! Thanks for sharing your information.
23andMe shows me as .4% African, and my Dad registering as 1% African. By testing my great-uncle on my Dad's side we were able to track back to one of my 10th great-grandfathers who is John Punch of Jamestown, VA colony. We had at least one 1st cousin marriage in that branch, so that may explain why the percentage is a little higher than expected.
Perhaps.
John punch… that’s amazing
Love this. My maternal grandfather was born in 1896 and my son was born in 2007. I love the huge gap. My mom had me at 19. So both my grandfather and I were much older having kids.
You've just proved the complications of figuring out when things happened on the family tree. And yet, it makes genealogy fascinating.
This is the perfect video for where I am on my genealogical journey. I had figured out how many ancestors I would have going back in time. Then I tried to figure out the percentage. Though I wonder if part of the reason why we receive higher ethnicity percentage from our grandparents is do to pedigree collapse?
Yep. Pedigree collapse will skew your DNA results. kzhead.info/sun/itCqj8VlnpacbKM/bejne.html
I haven't had a DNA test but am seriously considering it. My mother was into genealogy and researched her family back to my 5th great grandparents, so now I'm really curios at how ethnicity would play into it.
Go for it. It's amazing.
While I would not want to discourage you from taking a DNA test, I wish to encourage you in a different direction. First, ethnicity results could be accurate or inaccurate depending upon the DNA you've inherited and how large the reference population is for the area of the world your ancestors lived. Thus, if you're going to take a DNA test, don't do it purely for ethnicity reasons. Instead, take your family tree from your mother and validate it using DNA. You can do this by connecting with your DNA Matches. By so doing, you will be greatly beneficial for others who don't have an extensive family tree as you do. kzhead.info/sun/q9qohKaBooqsmmg/bejne.html The thing to be aware of is that DNA does have some things that might disprove your mother's family tree. Are you ready for that?
dont waste your money
On Ancestry, I tested myself, my paternal grandparents, and my maternal grandmother. I share 22% DNA with my paternal grandfather, 28% DNA with my paternal grandmother. My maternal grandmother and I only share 17% DNA. Unfortunately, as my maternal grandfather has been dead for 20 years, I can’t test him, but I would guess I share 33% DNA with him. My mum always says I look like her dad, and she looks more like her dad than her mum, so I guess that makes sense why I share so much DNA with him.
If you're interested, I made a video explaining some more about genetic inheritance that you might enjoy. Why You DON'T Have 25% of Grandma's Genes kzhead.info/sun/lsZ6g6-hgadmqJ8/bejne.html
I love this! When it comes to generations that far back and there is slavery involved it is hard to tell if someone may have come from an enslaved person. Especially, with people "passing for white" or sometimes they would be listed as white but once you find pictures it is obvious they are mixed. When you have such a small amount of DNA like 1% I was wondering what generations that would consist of. Thank you
My family has a progenitor who was conceived and born in slavery. His father was English, his mother was a "slave". They had one child and couldn't marry due to laws at the time. Many of the remaining family ostracized him and even had his will set aside when he died because he freed his son and gave him the entire estate. The family couldn't stand it and petitioned the state governor so that a "mulatto" could not be freed and inherit. (I have all records including his manumission later granted by the State House of Representatives) My family insists orally that the enslaved woman was native american. The early census records list the family as "Free People of Color" and "Gens de Colour Libre" depending on where the census is from . . . until about the mid 1800's when we suddenly became "white". I have had my DNA analyzed and have 1% Ivory Coast & Ghana, 1% Cameroon, Congo & Western Bantu Peoples . . . I have -0-% Native American ancestry. The mixed race ancestor was my 5th Great Grandfather . . .
@@bledsoetx Terrific! My mother insisted she was part Cherokee, so when I did the test no NA but 2% African Mali. Mom's dead but after doing the genealogy I did find the full blood NA, Walkingstick back so far that it's a .78%. However I found a later mixed race fourth grandparent listed only in census records as White (Black). Looking at the neighbors all were black in that area. My mom didn't know but.. she would have been surprised too.
Honestly, I wouldn't worry about that 1%. It's either a false result or insufficient because the refence populations are too small for confirmation.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics This is a great video and it is a topic that very much interest me. I have also read that the 1 percent could be a false result, or is insufficient. I think that I must be a rare case. I am nearly 100 percent African with only 1.4 percent European DNA. One-third of my DNA matches on 23andme are European. Through DNA testing I was able to confirm that one of my maternal 2nd great grandfathers was 100 percent European. He had children with black women outside of his marriage and had children with his wife, who was white, British. I am a DNA match with his mixed race and European descendants who have tested. This has opened up a can of worms, unfortunately - a topic for another day. I also confirmed, through DNA testing and records that he was the son and grandson of Scottish slave owners in Jamaica. I am currently researching another maternal line that is mainly mixed race (African, European). This was also a new discovery. There are also European DNA matches on this line as well. I also thought that my paternal side was 100 percent African. However, one of my DNA matches on that side, who is mixed race, informed me that I am matching with her paternal European side. As a side note, my timeline on 23andme indicates that my lineage started off as European, with African DNA being introduced during the late 1700s. Eventually my mixed race ancestors began having children with ‘full-blooded’ Africans according to the timeline. I have been doing a lot of research and am finding that, so far, this appears to be the case. In my situation, if I ignore the 1.4 percent, I won’t be able to trace back some of my family lineage. Again, I think that I may be one of those rare cases.
Dear Douglasville, Slavery doesn't necessarily mean African. I'm part Jewish and very much Roman so I think the Jewish part came from the people enslaved in the 1st century AD or thereabouts. None of my family knows anything about being Jewish. One half of one percent Nigerian too. WHAAAT??? Yes.
Thank you for the helpful video!
My pleasure
On my mothers side I can trace back one ancestor to around 1561, but other than that only to 1700’s. I even visited Ireland and went through church record. Only reason I could trace one was because he was quite famous in Ireland. I have done a quite extensive family tree a lot of effort and months of work.
Nice to have this explained. I found my husbands 2% Norwegian going back 4 generations. My side of the tree looks pretty complete to the 4th and 5th generation but I still haven't found my 2% Iberian.
Iberian is particularly tough because so many groups have overlapped there for so long.
Keep up the research, you may find it yet.
Fortunately I don't need a dna test to know my ancestry. I'm norwegian/icelandic and swedish. With a pinch of danish. So nordic..... Boring family. I know. So my grandfather moved to Seattle. And my great grandmother became a new yorker. Before retiring to Miami. My parents once considered becoming aussies, but changed their minds. Good thing that, or my brother might have been named Joey ! 🤣🐨 Stay safe and well. Love from Norway 💖🇳🇴
Not boring at all, even if you're 100% nordic. It doesn't matter if you're 100% something, our ancestries tell stories in their own way and they're always fascinating.
I learned I was 25% Norwegian so did a little research and was totally impressed. So much so, I'm learning Norwegian! I also live 15 min north of Seattle. Wish I was in Norway instead! Love from US, to Norway:)
Then you owe it to your rare breed to hook up with a scandavian. They are a handsome lot.
Seriously, you are sooo lucky I was rooting for Norwegian but only got less than 10 percent, mytrueDNA.com matches include lots of Icelandic, but, not sure that counts. My great grandmother was born in Sweden, but my cousins have no Nordic whatsoever. Odd. You are lucky! Norway is soooooooo incredible!
Nobody's familial history is boring.
What about random recombination? I've worked on my family tree for many years, combining my findings with DNA results from all of the box companies, plus every other company out there on the market. One thing I have noticed is that you can have traces of DNA (aka. those tiny %s) that go back REALLY far, ie. farther than 300+ years. My husband actually does show a very tiny trace of Ashkenazi. We had to go back to the 1500s to find the ancestor (which, fortunately, we were able to do with English records). So sometimes you inherit by random recombination of genes, and your solution is going to be REALLY distant. At least that has been my experience.
This is very interesting! Thank you!
My pleasure!
These also supposes what shows up stays there in updates or shows up on other ancestry sites. My dad got all sorts of things on his original Ancestry, including trace levels Polynesian, Finnish and North African. I got Caucasus, Melanesian and Native American. My mother got mostly English. Yet on My Heritage my mother got Native Amazonian and Ashkenazi Jewish with the same test and I got slightly more Native American than her as well as Greek and Balkans. Yet the updates on Ancestry got rid of almost all the trace results, and about 20 to 30 percent of DNA got recategorized as Welsh, Scottish and English and nothing else for my dad, similar but with a tiny bit of German for me and mostly English with inexplicable 3 per cent Norway and 5 per cent Swedish for my mother. 23 and Me says mostly British for me but with 1.7 per cent Italian or Greek and 0.3 Cyprus. My Ancestry test shows up Native American on every other site I have uploaded it to and my 23 and Me on DNA Land says I have Ashkenazi 3.5% Mbuti 1.4%. Basically, none of these things tallies and you will be better off ignoring it all.
They love to default to Nordic countries, those tests. Someone living in Finland now in present times, had an ancestor who went thru the rest of Europe......4000 years ago. Seems to match you, so therefore you are from Finland. Even if no one in your tree has lived in Finland....your people got off that wagon train in France, or England. Not exactly best science. But the tests do get better each 2-3 years, it seems. Let the tests guide your research direction, but then get it on paper.
Elise, you make a VERY valid point about the ethnicities changing. Thank you. There isn't more more to add.
Because his father's family emigrated from England, my father told me I was English and that was that. I am part English, but not nearly as much as he thought. I'm 47% Scottish... and English, Welsh, Dutch, Danish, Irish, German, French. The results were pretty much what I expected after talking to my oldest sister who spent the last 30 years doing our genealogy, but what nobody expected was... Kazakhstani!?! 🤔
Dutch and German is the same genetics.. English Welsh also..
This is very informative and actually made me realize that the ethnicity can go much further back. How many times have we seen people say that a child " lhas the exact eyes/jaw/features/spittin' image of" as a relative from 3 or 4 generations ago?
What we inherit could be further back on our tree than we realize. The next video you should watch is this one: Understand How Genetic Inheritance Impacts Your DNA Test Results kzhead.info/sun/YMpwhrmIpJmvZY0/bejne.html
Very informative and eye opening.
Glad you think so!
Thank you, this is most illuminating. Now, me and my 3 siblings have each taken a DNA test. Firstly, I had bad news for them. I really am their brother 🤣 Seriously though, you won't be surprised that we got slightly different percentages. Is there perhaps a way to pool the results from the four of us to get a more certain result of our heritage?
I love your humor. Thanks. There really isn't much you can do with the ethnicity percentages. The best thing to understand your heritage is to use each other's DNA matches to build your genetic family tree. kzhead.info/channel/PLcVx-GSCjcdmsw25mbI-wJin_9_9QQUzI.html You'll also want to learn the fundamentals of genealogy research that my wife teaches on our channel. Start here kzhead.info/sun/edxrhMqeZIRjrIE/bejne.html
I'm from Germany and expected to have some Eastern European ancestry cause my grandma came from Moravia, an area in Czechia that was mostly inhabited by Germans prior to WW2. What I didn't expect was that it was a whole 12% Eastern European. I asked my grandma about it and she told me that her grandfather was Czech which I never even knew. Definitely very cool to learn about this stuff. Also learned I am 2,6% Iberian which I never even knew about
I'm glad you spoke to your grandma about your family tree. Take the time to gather names, dates, and places from her to build your family tree. kzhead.info/sun/edxrhMqeZIRjrIE/bejne.html You can also interview grandma for even more fun details. I have several videos about doing family history interviews. You'll be glad you did this with your grandma if you take the advice of my wife and me. kzhead.info/sun/n8yOmqWOoYOoZnA/bejne.html Then when you link your DNA to that family tree, you might discover even more ancestors through DNA matching. kzhead.info/channel/PLcVx-GSCjcdmsw25mbI-wJin_9_9QQUzI.html
German ancestry always seems to be quite a mix… I’ve got ancestors from Danzig who spoke German, were Lutheran and had German names, but on my DNA results they showed up as Baltic
@@joshuamacbeath yep, germany wasn't even a country for the longest time so the cultures, languages and heritage are very diverse. a lot of our last names sound german at the start but end in syllables like "-witsch" or "-ow" which are clearly of slavic origin. very interesting stuff
@@GestressteKatze there are lots of slavic "outposts" in Germany, just look for locations with "Wend/Wind/Wendisch/Windisch" in their names, like Wendland, Windisch Eschenbach .... Wenden is an old word for Slavic people.
Elisabeth Warren can. .00003 showed that her great great great grandfather heard a story that native Americans lived in Massachusetts. Harvard overlooked full blooded Native Americans and gave her a scholarship.
I like to stay out of the politics of ethnicity. I prefer to advocate people build a family tree using DNA matching and genealogical records.
Thank you for this explanation. I was trying to understand the 1% in my ancestry.
You are very welcome
One of my great grandfathers was born in 1862. I was born in 1975. He was 58 when my grandmother was born. His father was almost 40 when he was born. 200 years doesn't go back that many generations on that side. A side note, after my 2x great grandmother passed away, he married a much younger woman & had 6 more children, the last one born when he was 81! 😳 Both his sons from my 2x great grandma died in the Civil War, so I guess he felt the need to make more.
This explains so much why I genetically did not inherit ANY of my Irish genetics from my 3rd great grandmother, my mother didn’t inherit any either.. but my great-aunt does have 12% roughly. (I do have a direct mDNA line too.. unfortunately my maternal grandmother passed before we could get testing).
Here's a great follow-up video regarding genetic inheritance that you should watch: Understand How Genetic Inheritance Impacts Your DNA Test Results kzhead.info/sun/YMpwhrmIpJmvZY0/bejne.html
thx for explaine this! greetings from Sweden
Glad it was helpful!
Hello, Very interesting video as usual, the part that personally interested me the most, it is the one concerning the documents on the ancestors, on the genealogy based on the archives !!! Because you mentioned the parishes! This mainly concerns Europe and the USA! But unfortunately for other countries, it is dramatic, I take my case I am Franco-Algerian. It is quite simply impossible for me like all Algerians besides to find anything as a document concerning my genealogy. Yet it is known that if there is one people who attaches great importance to genealogy, it is the ARABS! But unfortunately during the French colonial period, all of this was destroyed. In Algeria we say that they stole our memory, our identity in part. Because from the 19th century, France constantly confronted with revolts, uprisings of tribes, had the idea of making these tribes disappear by dividing them into small families on the model that reign in France. So that the genealogy of most families begins with a recent ancestor, but impossible to go beyond since everything has been destroyed or stolen and is in the archives of the French army to which we do not have access. ! A French civil status has been created from scratch! For example, my maternal line is European V7a, but I do not know if it is from the Roman, Vandal, Ottoman or Spanish period with all the Muslim Andalusians who took refuge in Algeria after the Christian reconquista in Spain. Anyway, thank you for your work!
Thank you for watching and commenting. Many locations around the world have suffered from lack of record keeping or from record destruction. We can only do the best we can with the tools at our disposal.
I always thought I was about a quarter North American Indian and the rest, French Canadian, as I was told all my life. Just did my DNA recently and I was so floored I couldn't speak for several minutes. I just stared and stared. I thought it was a mistake. Turns out my fascination with everything Irish might have a very deep, if not distant meaning. It said I'm Irish. That was the biggest surprise but I was also surprised to find I'm 45% which is so cool and 42% North American Indian. Almost a true Half Breed. The rest, Scottish and a couple other things. But almost half and half was a big surprise. I'm still pinching myself about the Irish though. I used to half jokingly say in the comment section of Ireland scenery videos, "I miss you, Ireland, and I've never even been there". Haven't I?
Cool glad I found you will check out your previous videos.
Awesome. You could be here awhile.
Thanks for breaking this down.
And addtionally there is the fact, that one has rarely 32 or 64 of that levels great-parents - quite some of those ancestors positions might be actually the same person for 2 or 3 positions.
Depends on the family. Pedigree collapse may happen sooner, but I have seen trees that go back several generations without any duplication.
I am amazed at how many different ethnicities I carry in my DNA. I found out I have Egyptian DNA. This was astounding! I also have Northern African. I am pleasantly surprised that I have Southern East African. I have a wide variety of DNA in me. Malta came up for my DNA and I expected that because my maternal Grandfather was born in Malta, so I knew that would come up. My highest percentage was Italian and I found I do have DNA near Rome. I have Croatian, and yes one of my grandmothers was born in Zagreb, Austria-Hungary. I did have a great Grandmother from France, so of course French came up. My paternal grandfather's parents came from Switzerland, so German came up in a small percentage. I also got Arab, and that is in the Mediterranean, so that does make sense. I also got Southeastern Asian DNA. Plus the Neanderthal came up, as I thought it might. When Greek and Balkan came up, I was surprised. British and Irish came up, and I was told that I had some Irish ancestors. When the Levantine DNA registered, it made sense because my Maltese Grandfather told me that we are descended from the Phoenicians, and Levantines are the descendants of the Phoenicians. It was a very interesting DNA finding. I believe this makes me bi racial. My features do not show all of my racial ethnicity, but I have it in my DNA. Is it just me or are there others with such a wide variety of DNA in them?
In regions that have extensive intermixing, you will find a wide variety of ethnicities. In communities that where liked married like, not so much. It all depends and the great thing is we learn more about history by looking into our family's past.
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics - I am shocked that I have so many different types of DNA. People ask me why I have so many different ethnicities in my DNA. I think it means that a lot of my ancestors moved around a lot a long time ago. I was surprised to have Egyptian DNA. Western and Eastern African was a big surprise to me, too. Levantine DNA was also a surprise. Italian DNA, in the vicinity of Rome was wonderful to see. I remember my grandfather, who was born in Malta, remembered that his father, who owned a store of some sort, would have large dinners at their house with Arabs. Considering that I found out that I have Arab DNA, maybe my Maltese grandfather, Michealangelo Sapiano, actually had Arabian relatives and my grandfather was unaware of it, or too young at the time to understand it, or knew it, but never mentioned it. He did know that we have Phoenician ancestry, and that actually came up in the DNA to confirm it. A lot of people I know had almost no variations in their DNA. They can not understand how my DNA is so varied, and well, I can't help it. I am what all of my ancestors before me were made of. I believe this all means that I am mixed race. To look at me, you would never imagine it and would dismiss me at first glance that I am anything mixed at all. However, I am the embodiment of mixed ancestry.
Malta is a mixed race of people groups so this would be of no surprise to those of us that know its history and geographical location.
@@rosahacketts1668 Yes, I have studied Malta quite extensively, throughout my life and I am aware of the ancient history of the Islands of Malta. The strategic location makes Malta a place every former nautical power wanted to conquer. This is why Malta, in ancient history, generally surrendered most of the time, it saved their lives. Yes, it would make sense that I would be such a huge mix of the many races of the world. People shake their heads and wonder about how on Earth my DNA is so varied, so mixed and so unusual. Being even a small percentage of Egyptian was my biggest surprise, along with the Arabic, the Neanderthal and the Levantine. The fact that I have DNA centered around Rome, is deeply meaningful to me. Levant refers to an area encompassed by modern Israel, Jordan, and Palestine. Canaan is the ancient name of this region. This also refers to the Phoenician DNA that I was told about by my Maltese grandfather. Thanks for having an interest in Malta. My dream is to one day travel there, and be able to visit for at least a week or two, in order to walk the streets and have fresh energy every new day. Rosa Hacketts- It sounds as if you have an interest in Malta, or at least an interesting knowledge of Malta. Blessings to you.
When you mentioned how generations can have big or small time gaps depending on the age people have kids, I immediately thought of John Tyler! He has 2 grandsons who were still alive in the 2010’s! Not sure about now though
There are outliers with averages to be sure.
The first chart you showed with the percentages is what I know as blood quantum (grandfather is from a res).
Mine was incredibly boring. 100% Scandinavian (I live in Norway) My mother has 2.9% Finnish and 10% broadly Western European with the rest being Scandinavian, but none of the non-scandi passed on to me I know I have German ancestors back in the 1600’s though based on family records. Hilariously I’m as far from typically Scandinavian looking as is possible. Even more interestingly, by blonde Norwegian friends “only” had between 88-92% Scandinavian dna.
DNA doesn't lie, but it doesn't tell the whole truth. I'm glad to hear that you have a record-based family tree. I hope you'll share that tree linked to your DNA so others can have a triangulation point with your research and genetics. kzhead.info/sun/q9qohKaBooqsmmg/bejne.html
The fact that you are 100% something actually makes the results more interesting
This whole blonde Nordic stuff is just Nazism. We are all different, otherwise we would be interbred. Many blonde English people are actually boggled eyed and ugly.
Boring ? Pure blood is something to be proud of
@@varoonnone7159 Scandinavia is a huge place, and in the past it was inhabited by a lot of different naticw tribes and ethnicities, she's not 100% anything.
Things get really complicated when the test brings up some lizard dna.
That just means an ancestor worked for a newspaper.
I was looking at the GEDMatch archiac matches and looked up what looked visually like the closest match and the word I searched listed types of dog breeds, and I was a tad worried 😫
A lot of people have up to 2% Neanderthal DNA but I don't know if these genealogical tests look for it.
You'll get hired by facebook suddenly.
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This was very informative, thank you! I didn't even know that you didn't get 25% from each grandparent equally!
This was great, very well explained and well researched - will be subscribing!
Thanks so much. Be sure to also watch the research videos my wife produces to teach you how to build your family tree. kzhead.info/sun/edxrhMqeZIRjrIE/bejne.html (Gotta do my husbandly duties.)
@@FamilyHistoryFanatics Thanks, will check them out! Keep up the great work!